Saturday, August 3, 2013

There was a man who had a monkey whom he kept in a cage,
mostly.No one ever knew the man had the
monkey.The monkey was quiet and happy
most of the time, and didn’t mind being in the cage at all.

The man was an artist.

One day the man prepared his studio to begin a new
painting.He laid out his paints and
brushes and pinned some loose canvas on the wall, as was his custom.Then he un-caged the monkey and set him
amongst the painting materials.The
monkey took right to it.He had a grand
time splashing and smearing paint all over the canvas.He made quite a mess.After an hour or so the monkey seemed to lose
interest, and so the man cleaned him up and returned him to his cage.

Several days later, after the paint had dried, the man took
the canvas off the wall and measured it and built a stretcher for it.After stretching the canvas the man built a
nice frame for it as well.The man
signed the painting.Then he filled his
pipe with tobacco and sat and had a nice long smoke.